The other day I bought an HP thin client (HP T5530) and had planned to
use it for my prom programmer. The thin client has a parallel port and
will boot to dos so I thought that would be perfect.
When I reloaded the HP OS software into flash memory and booted the
client up I noticed there was a terminal emulation capability. It
seemed to be comprehensive in that it would emulate Tektronix, all kinds
of DEC VT terminals and would do TEKTRONIX, REGIS and VT640 graphics. I
tried it connected to a VAX via its serial port and it worked. I tried
telnet into a VAX and ran a program that generated TEK4010 type
graphics. It drew the graph OK but once in the TEK mode I couldn't get
it back into terminal mode. The client froze up and I had to reboot.
Has anyone else ever tried these as graphics terminals? Is the
emulation good or bad? I'm looking for color, say VT340 or VT525.
Doug
